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Respectfully, you have absolutely no idea where or what I prefer my tax dollars go to. None. Really? You thought it wise to attack my motives simply because I am opposed to this type of student loan debt bailout?

Nice! That new NVDA dividend I think is just a compliance thing. Like you said, it is not a dividend stock at all. The 10-1 split will be interesting, should be a lot of volume on it two weeks.

He'd rather his taxes go to PPP loans, corporate bailouts, and subsidizing mega corporation and share holder profits through government benefits so they can continue to pay substandard wages. Oh and also, don't forget the farmers. Make sure the farmers get their welfare (ehrm) subsidy checks. Those are the folks that really need tax dollars in their pockets.

The people with the most significant impact from student loan forgiveness are the 'less fortunate' who 'can't provide for themselves for a myriad of reasons'. Despite the rich kid liberal arts boogeyman that conservative media paints as the caricature, it's moreso folks who are paying $700 a month and having $650 of it going to interest, the folks who were steered towards costly forbearance options by predatory debt service providers, people who had unexpected children and can't afford child care or unexpected emergencies, etc. Would you be more open to the idea if there was an income cap to be eligible for any forgiveness or a tier system in terms of amount forgiven? I would be for that, and a big part of all of this actually is that with the Income Driven Repayment plans that forgive the remainder after X amount of years. It's a conscious decision made almost entirely by 17-18 year olds. Many should be and are surrounded by folks giving them good info, but many aren't and like you said, society has made it appear required. I'm also biased, as someone who came from nothing and was trying to make my mom proud after she worked so hard to give me a good chance at life. She didn't, and I didn't, even conceive a world where not going to college if I had the opportunity was even an option, and not knowing any better about anything i followed the path laid before me and it took me several years of struggling and trying to do what I thought I was supposed to only to realize that wasn't the right path for me. A costly mistake, and it was absolutely a mistake, but it wasn't reckless or entitled or irresponsible; I was never provided with any other glimpse at any other path. I think a large part of the resistance to this idea is the story being told about "choice" creating an archetype of someone reckless and irresponsible and entitled getting a handout when, imo, that is not an accurate representation of the dominant type of person benefitting. This is where I (respectfully), don't understand the difference between student debt forgiveness and food stamps or welfare, other than the narrative. Conceptually, your tax dollars going to food stamps to pay for others to be able to get food when you pay for your own food isn't any different.

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They keep moving everything up. So they might move it farther. But I don't think this changes a whole lot of recruit's timelines. A ton of them are committed by the summer before their senior year. It will speed up a few of them. But it will also be a ton better for coaches who don't have to recruit nearly as many kids through the season. The only hiccup would be coaches leaving/getting fired. But I'm sure there will be an out in that case, either formally or informally.

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Pathetic.

I’m not saying NVDA wouldn’t be worth it on it’s own but about 6 months ago I bought a pretty good chunk of SMH Van Eck Semiconductor ETF. It has done very well, primarily because about 20% of it is in NVDA, but it is a little more diversified with numerous other semiconductor and tech holdings. Up about 32% in the last 6 months. Not up as much as NVDA but still seeing the benefit while playing it a little safer. And NVDA also increased their dividend 150%, from 4¢ to 10¢. It’s not a dividend stock but still…

Lol, Sears says on Big 10, that nothing was working tonight. He only had a fastball. His other stuff was way off. Nice to have nothing working and get 9k and only allow 1 run

I view these issues completely differently. Food stamps, welfare etc. help the less fortunate. Sure many may have made poor life choices but by and large these aren’t people who even had a chance at higher education. A great many of them can’t provide for themselves for a myriad of reasons. Their situation is more inevitable and not necessarily the result of a choice they made. They are needy. College debt is a conscious decision and in many cases it’s a calculated gamble. This degree should garner $10k (or whatever) more per year in income and that will allow me to repay the incurred debt in 10 years (or whatever time frame). The problems arise when people go way too far into debt or waste their education on a field that stands no chance of providing the required income. And more importantly, this type of student debt relief doesn’t discern between those who may really need help and the rich person whose just dragging their feet paying it off. I will admit, I’m biased. My wife and I paid off our own student loans. Granted it wasn’t the high 5 or 6 digit numbers some have recently accrued. We also paid for a bit of our son’s (he only went 2 years locally) and a much larger chunk for our daughter who graduated from UNL in 2.5 years. They both had some debt of their own that they managed to completely pay off within a few years. We used home equity and savings for our share. I see absolutely no reason why some kid who stupidly went $50k+ into debt, probably for some useless degree, is more deserving of a government handout than we are. We did it right while others apparently haven’t. It’s not that I want my share, I just don’t want my tax money used to pay for others what we paid by ourselves. Unless you’re going to be a doctor, going $100k into education debt is just damn ridiculous. The only thing that makes me sympathetic is society has made it appear required. All that has done is bloat higher education and allowed them to charge vastly more than what their service is worth. We need to start better identifying kids in Middle school and High school and heading them in more varied directions and quit drilling home the idea that the only way to make it in life is a $200k diploma. So many graduates enter the workforce in a job that anyone with a half a brain and a little desire could do but that employer is requiring a degree to do it. It’s stupid. The whole system is built to funnel huge amounts of money into higher education that in most cases isn’t even needed.

Huskers win!!!